This 106,549 does NOT include those domain names registered by trademark holders under the “block” program (Sunrise B).

I reached out to ICM yesterday once the report came out for some more recent numbers.

ICM told me as of yesterday, April 3rd, there are currently 132,859 paid .XXX (normal) registrations not including the TM blocks.

Including Trademark Holders that registered a .XXX domain under the 10 year block program; plus domain names ICM reserved for future sales or use, ICANN ordered reserved domains and domains of celebrities and sensitive issue domains which are permanently reserved by the registry, there are 215,835 .XXX domains under ICM’s management.

Not surprisingly, the largest registrar in the world Godaddy.com led the way in terms of normal .XXX registrations in December (NOT including Blocks).

More surprisingly is that NetworkSolutions.com had the 2nd highest number of registrations by far.

Here is a break down of which registrars got the registrations for .XXX in December:

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Comments

They grouped together the blocked domains with other stuff so as to obfuscate the fact that the registry is almost 50% blocks which just doesn’t look good IMHO. Also network solutions is number 2 because real companies use network solutions (the big corporate types) and they are the ones that bought all the blocks. Either way ICM probably made a lot of money so congrats for them.

Mike, it’s not very interesting. The February or March statistic would be much more interesting. .XXX has all but vanished from internet marketing. It’s becoming a very nice new TLD ploy, 3 months of bruh ha ha, make a lot of money, then into obscurity. Nice formula. .CO you still see plastered everywhere. They have followed through with their promises. The credibility has been build. There will be a lot of “chump” TLDs in the future. The top of the line in every new extension has worth, but beyond that, caveat emptor.

It’ll be interesting to see how this all develops in the next months, especially when the first renewals come up towards the end of the year, respectively when the auto-renew grace period is over. Launch Date + 45 days.

We can only hope that facebook.xxx helps to drive better recognition with the public. I’m getting OK direct type-ins with some of ours and one site is doing OK. But, this extension is still very much unknown by the public. Or, if they did know, they’ve forgotten. So, the point above about the lack of marketing is true and disturbing and I hope this changes.